Collection is open for researchers with no restrictions. Registration
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may be used in-house only. Materials will be retrieved from and returned to
storage areas by staff members.

Copyright:

Please contact staff regarding copyright status of these materials.
Researchers may quote from the collection under fair use provisions of the
copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Series 2: Miscellaneous : materials are organized by type of
material.

Biographical
Sketch

Maud Palmer Hart was born April 25, 1892 in Mankato, Minnesota to Tom
Hart and Stella Palmer. Her life growing up in Mankato with her family and two
sisters would later give inspiration for her writings, most notably in the
Betsy-Tacy series. Maud married Delos Lovelace in 1917; they lived apart until
1919 due to Delos' military service in World War I. In 1928 they moved to
Claremont, California and had a daughter, Merian, in 1931. Lovelace's first
publication, The Black Angels , was published in
1926. Her well known children's series, known as the Betsy-Tacy series, started
in 1938 after Lovelace began telling her childhood stories to her daughter
Merian. The first book in the series, Betsy-Tacy ,
was published in 1940; ten titles later, the last book in the series,
Betsy's Wedding , was published in 1955. The city
of Mankato, for which the fictional Betsy-Tacy setting of Deep Valley was based
upon, declared Betsy-Tacy Day on Ocotober 7, 1961. Lovelace passed away in
1980.

Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of manuscript materials and miscellaneous
materials related to the works of Maud Hart Lovelace and includes corrected
typescripts, notes, pamphlets, dummy, research materials, proof of
illustrations, reviews, correspondence, newspaper articles, reviews,
photographs, and clippings. Note that in series two (Miscellaneous) there are
many folders simply labeled notes -- these are typed notes that Lovelace
obstensibly pulled from her personal journals she kept as a child; these
journals were later destroyed. These notes were used for inspiration for
Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy series, although they do not perfectly correspond to
exact titles.

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